Reading railway station

Signals and ole masts clutter the west end of Reading station and their angular lines contrast with the smooth, classic outline of a High Speed Train..

Structures for the new overhead wires are already impeding views, so it is a case of grabbing shots like this while the gaps are there!

From this angle it looks as if the roofs could be folded down and shut the passengers in.

Having got off the 11.45 Paddington to Swansea at Reading, I hoped to snap a train or two or..more.. , but someone had just been spotted trespassing on the line near Reading and so no trains were moving. So I pressed on to my appointment.

This photo was shot through the grubby window of a Cross-Country Voyager.

This is similar to shots uploaded earlier, but with a bit better definition. I think that this could be a Harris Hawk like the one in this photo www.ipernity.com/doc/philsutters/32715783

Reading station is undergoing massive changes to improve the flow of traffic between London and the West of England and South Wales, where it crosses routes from the south coast to the Midlands and North of England. Add to this the electrification of the line from London to Bristol and South Wales and Reading's new role as the western terminus of London's new Crossrail line that runs under the centre of London to destinations in Essex and South-east London. These signalling gantries and the overhead electrical power line masts are the future. Photography will be hampered by all this new steel!

This is one photo - the auto-focus has made the pillar nice & crisp but everything else is somewhat less so!

Having got off my train from Gatwick, I went first to the nearby east end of Reading Station, hoping for something apart from Thames Turbos or HSTs. Having seen nothing different, I headed for the western end. Just as I did so, I spotted a train of empty aggregate wagons on one of the down lines, headed by two EWS 66s and one DB Shenker 66. Of course there were the platform buildings and stationary trains in the way, so the clearest shot was this one! Sorry 'shed' fans!

I just hadn't taken a photo of a modern train coupling before!

Looked at from this perspective the standers are to the left of the walkers. Sorry this is just the twisted way my mind works!